Well, this is a somewhat shocking turn of events…

After a Thursday court ruling that ordered President Trump to fully fund the SNAP program (a.k.a. food stamps) during the government shutdown, his administration filed an appeal with the Supreme Court.

Today, SCOTUS ruled in favor of the Trump administration.

Surprisingly, it was liberal Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson who blocked the lower court’s ruling.

Check it out:

 

It’s important to note that this is not a final decision from the Supreme Court.

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Jackson’s order is a temporary pause on the lower court’s order while SCOTUS weighs arguments.

The New York Times has more details on the ruling:

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson late Friday temporarily halted a lower court order that would have required the Trump administration to fund food stamps in full, fueling new uncertainty around the anti-hunger program’s immediate fate. The justice did not rule on the legality of the White House’s actions. Instead, she imposed a pause meant to give an appeals court more time to weigh the legal arguments raised by the government, as it seeks to withhold funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program during the shutdown. Some states had already said that they were preparing to send out full food stamp benefits.

It really says something when the left has lost our nation’s most progressive Supreme Court justice…

Cue the liberal meltdown on this one.

It’s completely understandable why even the most left-wing SCOTUS justice would side with the Trump administration on this appeal, and it has to do with the pure insanity of the lower court’s ruling.

You see, the Trump administration had agreed to pay out SNAP benefits using Congress’s emergency fund.

However, they informed the court that they would only be able to pay out partial benefits because the contingency fund does not have enough money to fully fund the gigantic, expensive program.

On Thursday, an Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge said that wasn’t okay and that the Trump administration needed to pay out full benefits.

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Per Fox News:

On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Jack McConnell rejected the administration’s effort to only partially fund the benefits program for some 42 million low-income Americans for November as the shutdown drags on, giving the government 24 hours to comply.

“People have gone without for too long,”  McConnell said in court.

So, where was the Trump administration supposed to get the rest of the money from?

Well, Judge McConnell told them to re-direct funds meant for child nutrition programs to SNAP beneficiaries.

From NBC News:

The administration agreed earlier this week to use $4.65 billion in contingency funds to cover about 65% of the benefits that eligible households would ordinarily receive. But it argued that it cannot draw from additional funds set aside for child nutrition programs, known as Section 32 funding, to fully fund SNAP because doing so would take away resources from other programs, like school lunches.

“Once those billions are out the door, there is no ready mechanism for the government to recover those funds — to the significant detriment of those other critical social programs whose budgets the district court ordered the government to raid,” Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote in the Supreme Court filing.

Yes, you read that right.

Instead of giving kids school lunches, this judge wanted the Trump admin to take it away and give it to people on SNAP (many of whom are by no means starving, by the way.)

Absolutely insane.

Earlier, AG Pam Bondi ripped the judge a new one on X:

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@TheJusticeDept just filed a request for an immediate stay of Judge McConnell’s utterly lawless Temporary Restraining Order issued yesterday after business hours—yet remarkably forcing @USDA to “raid school-lunch money to instead fund SNAP benefits.” That TRO purports to force the government to divert some $5 billion from the school lunch program to SNAP by the end of today.

Thankfully, the ridiculous order was blocked, at least temporarily.

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